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Subscribe to RSSA new round of NBC News-Marist polls shows President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney running almost neck-and-neck in three key battleground states, with Obama holding a slight advantage in Michigan and North Carolina, and the two candidates tied in New Hampshire.
Click here to read the NBC News/Marist Poll of New Hampshire
In Michigan, Obama is ahead by four percentage points among registered voters, including those who are undecided but are still leaning toward a candidate, 47 to 43 percent.
Click here to read the NBC News/Marist Poll of Michigan
In North Carolina, the president gets 46 percent to Romney's 44 percent, which is within the survey's margin of error.
And in New Hampshire, the two men are tied at 45 percent each.
Click here to read the NBC News/Marist Poll of North Carolina
"Everything is very close," says Lee Miringoff, the director of Marist College's Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted these surveys.
In 2008, Obama won Michigan and New Hampshire – which had been competitive states in previous presidential elections – by double-digit margins. And he carried North Carolina, a reliably Republican state since 1980, by just 14,000 votes.
In all three states, Obama's approval rating remains above water -- or right on the surface. In Michigan, 48 percent of registered voters approve of his job, while 42 percent disapprove.
In New Hampshire, it's 47 to 45 percent, and in North Carolina it's 47 to 47 percent.
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As for Romney, his favorability rating is upside down in two of the three states. In Michigan, 37 percent say they have favorable impression of the former Massachusetts governor, and 43 percent have an unfavorable opinion. In North Carolina, Romney's fav/unfav is 40-42 percent.
The lone exception is in New Hampshire – which borders Massachusetts, and where Romney owns a home – it's even at 45-45 percent.
Mixed results on the economy
The issue of the economy is a mixed bag in each of these three states, as well.
Majorities say the country is headed in the wrong direction, but nearly equal majorities believe that Obama inherited the current economic conditions.
In Michigan, the president holds a narrow edge over Romney, 44 to 42 percent, when it comes to which candidate would do a better job handling the economy.
Romney, meanwhile, leads on this question in New Hampshire, 46 to 42 percent. And they are tied in North Carolina, at 43 percent.
"The economy plays both ways in all three states," Miringoff says.
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In New Hampshire, adding Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) to the GOP presidential ticket doesn't improve Romney's standing in the Granite State.
A Romney-Ayotte team won the support of 43 percent of registered voters, versus 45 percent for Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
In a hypothetical contest for Michigan's Senate seat, incumbent Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow leads former Republican Rep. Pete Hoekstra by 12 points among registered voters, 49 to 37 percent.
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And in North Carolina's gubernatorial contest, former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, the Republican nominee, gets 43 percent, while Democratic Lt. Gov. Walter Dalton gets 41 percent.
These three NBC-Marist surveys were conducted June 24-25 by landline and cell phone of 1,078 registered voters in Michigan, 1,029 registered voters in New Hampshire and 1,019 registered voters in North Carolina.
The margin of error for the New Hampshire and North Carolina poll is plus-minus 3.1 percentage points, and it's 3.0 percentage points in Michigan.
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After reading this story, I am inclined to wish None of the Above were an option on an election ballot. As clearly that would be my choice if the election was held today.
I tried that option in the last general election, the end result was "nobody cares" whether I voted or not except me, and now I am stuck with the results.
@Jerry40yeardemocrat- I have read many of your posts and find that 99% of them add absolutely no value to a debate.
It appears that you are doing nothing but 'trolling' the site with intent to inflame and degrade other posters. Get a life! Make an argument with points; don't just spew hatred and nonsense.
Spewing hatred and often outright lies is what his type do best.
Get a job Libtard/turd.
@Jerry- that's it, that's all you have? Just shows your true level of intellect. What makes you think I need a job? I would guess I make more in a week than you do in a month.
What level of education do you really have 10th or 11th grade? less? Let's see you make just one intelligent post.
Just curious dear republicans...
How does a TRUE right wing, conservative republican get elected governor of a historically moderate/liberal state like Massachusetts?
Or is he just pandering to the tea party and is a RINO in disguise?
(Parrots please note this post does not relate to Obama. Try, just this once, to stay on topic.)
well ok again for lack an intelligent arguement you once again turn to name calling sweet and very smary
Well, as you can see, it didn't take long for the dope factor to strike. As for name calling, look at your own posts. You're a pro.
Now. CAN YOU ANSWER MY QUESTION?????????????????
(What's a smary?)
The answer is easy. When to opposition is so clueless, and had destroyed everything the survivors of any ship wreck will cling to whatever floats.
Romney may not be the most wonderful person in the world, may not be what everyone wants, but his background and skills prove he succeeds in whatever he does. Sorry, but for there to be a winner there has to be a loser. If you cannot win in one game or area of life change the game you get into of change your life. Remember there are always more "losers" than winners. The number one position is always filled leaving the rest to regroup and overcome feeling like losers, and THAT is what true victorious people will do. You may not be "number one" but not letting not being "number one" get you down.....PRICELESS>
He got enough votes. That clear it up for you yankyBOY.
He got enough votes. That clear it up for you yankyBOY.
I've been reading the comments of many Obama fans who say wait for the debates. Those debates that you think will improve Obama's chances will actually hurt them. It is during those debates Obama must answer for his time as President, his...you know...record. Those debates are where Obama is most vulnerable.
As a former Obama voter in 2008, I very much forward to seeing him try and explain his failure as President.
With your amazing political insights, you need to give Axelrod a call. Or get on the ballot yourself.
without a teleprompter!
You can't hit a lot of home runs when your own team is throwing rocks at you.
Poor lil' yankee-Boy must be having a bad morning. :)
I would get on the ballot were I a politician, but - alas - I possess way too much common sense to ever get elected. Besides, as an actual fallible human being I am not squeaky clean, so my chances of getting elected during an era in which most of the populace concentrates on almost everything that does not matter, I doubt I would win.
better come up with excuses for Obama's debating failures now.
Romney stayed with and often upstaged Newt, who would dismantle Ofailure in any type of debate.
good look Osocialist... you're going to need it kid
Mark Stone....
I don't quite understand the first sentence, BUT....
You and I think alike on the remainder... can we have a political party of 2?
Don't count out Obama in the debates. It will be the media that frames the questions. You know they will do anything to help Obama.
lets take a new poll after Obama's latest stunt - asking for donations instead of giving gifts to newlyweds or for birthdays... i think the presidency has just sunk to an all time low. talk about tacky and desperate!! of course you won't see this on msnbc.... follow the link...
politico44/2012/06/obama-campaign-launches-events-registry-127040.html
Actually it was on MSNBC yesterday... for about 15 minutes.
I MISSED THAT. That is a new low. Just when you thught he could not get any more repulsive in his politics.
Start packing your stuff, Barry. Romney is tied and he hasn't even picked a VP!! This isn't about Romney. This is about how so many people dislike Obama.
dislike... more like loathe.
i dislike eating vegetables for dinner... i despise this colossal failure in the WH
@ZMan- we saw what happened when McCain picked a runnning mate... doesn't always help does it?
Zman is a classic Sinner!
I f these rags claim the race to be neck and neck, that means Obama isn t doing well..
Obama hasn't done well...for 3 1/2 years...why start now?
I stand corrected
Obama's idea of America is Soviet style socialism, drenched in political correctness. Obama wants everything to be controlled by the government,and Obama care is just more government control. Obama must go after the Nov elections.And I wouldn't believe anything that NBC or MSNBC says about the upcoming election,because of their Soviet style, propaganda, masking for news.
Just wondering...
How many of you Obama haters take race into consideration when voting? (Read carefully now.)
How many have a Harvard education?
How many have ever been elected to state or federal office?
How many have ever been awarded a Nobel prize?
Anyone?
Maybe he should have a real job for practical experience.
lollllllllll
yes, the ivy league crowd on both sides of the aisle is dong wonders running this country... into the ground
Nobel Prize... lollllllllllllll
I would hope that with a harvard education, paid for by questionable funding, I could formulate viable policies...to improve economic conditions. Hopefully that training would allow me to interpret the constitution as it is written as opposed to rewriting it so that it suits me and my failing policies. I would hope with a harvard education...that when I lost my ass I would not have to pull the race card or blame Bush.
Obama was awarded a Nobel prize...Why?
Anyone?
Oh...and Nobel prize...really??? what a freakin joke.
Noble prize, puleaase everyone knows he didn't deserve it, he basically scammed and lied his way to where hes at today.
Sheila Jackson Lee got elected to public office. That pretty much closes out your argument yankeeboy Just proves that being elected to public office is NOT necessarily something to be boasting about. She may lack more intelligence than Obama
So did my favorite politician, Rod Blagojavich, and my second favorite politician, John Corzine, and my third favorite politician, Elliott Spitzer.
I admire Rod Blagojavich for understanding the economic significance in appointing a Senator, John Corzine for using "other people's money" to cover investment losses, and Elliott Spitzer for his taste in women.
If we could only have all those characteristics rolled into one candidate.
Then we could compete with Italy in corrupt bunga bunga!
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Sorry YankeeBoy...my ballot didn't have a spot to choose black or white.
Not looking good for the downgrade incumbent
the welfare king is in a ton of trouble
Both obama and Holder should be impeached for treason with the fast and furious scandal, enough said
Top secret leaks coming out of the white house, immigration, defense of marriage act. He only follows the constitution or law of the land when he wants.
when it comes to willard aka mitt, a line from 'vacation' comes to mind, where the car salesman tells griswold about the heap he is trying to sell him,"you just think you hate it now. wait till you drive it."
that's what I was telling people in 2008.
Y Boy. The fact that Romney was elected in one of the most liberal states in the country shows you his ability to get along with the lefties. Right now, the Congress is split because Barry is so far to the left there is no way that he anything gets done. If he is re-elected the Congess will continue to be split with the same results and just like the last four years ... nothing will get done. If Romney is elected ... his ability to work with the Dems will make things run much smoother in Congress and finally .... bills will get things passed that will result in a better economy and job creation. Think about it.
The genius of the right and their backroom guys.....So you want to get rid of medicare, because in reality, you and your buddies can make a lot more money with the government out of the way. Clean fewer toilets. Hire fewer assistants and keep people underemployed and all that. But what about the tidal wave of folks who will need medicare soon? Damn, they'll be hard to get around,......unless..............we can get them totally on our side!!!!
What? you say.
Yes!!!!! Get the people to vote against their own interests!!!!!
That'll never work!
Yes~! It will! Have you seen what a horrible greedy self loathing set of goofballs the 50s gave us? They're all shorted out upstairs, have nothing to do because they're the last generation that will collect a pension. They have absolutely everything to lose, and we can convince them to let us charge them for all of their money upfront instead of letting the government regulate the industry just a little....
And how?
Battle Plan
1. The President is smart and articulate. Remind everyone he's blacker than Anne Rand's soul.
2. Tell them that someone else is entitled. They understand that feeling because they wake up every day. Let them let loose their fear of loosing their pension on other people who just want the fair shake that they got.
3. Break the government every chance you get. If it's too strong to drown, beat it like a red headed stepchild and tell it what a bad boy it's been every day until it finally breaks down and takes it's own life. I'm seeing Carl Rove beating a kind of beady, stringy 50's style toy against a bedpost and laughing.
4. Be ready for the coming apocalypse. These jokers won't have anything after you take it all, and there is a slight risk that the people will rise up, or there may be a war. That IS what normally happens when an entire country full of people who hoard guns have little to do or be happy about...........we must convince our lemmings to do so as well. They should have so much invested in the bunker out back that they never have any stake in the whole again, and should even treasure the idea of freedom for tyranny while eating beans in a 300 sq ft fallout shelter.
5. Call a liberal a faggot and mean it. It really gets the base going to see some good old fashioned name calling. Oh yeah, and keep them away from those orphans. You know orphans can take care of themselves if let loose in a free market economy with the right skills. It's all in our collective movie experience. Oliver. An American Tale. Yeah, single moms are, uh.....WELFARE QUEENS!!! That's it! Unless they're white, that's bad.....hmm. Get back to ya.
6. Get your buddies to wreck another company, and then get other buddies to hire them and give them a raise. Lay off more lemmings. Tell them the Dems are totally responsible. You couldn't dump antifreeze into the water next to Charles Dickens Dam and estuary so someone has to starve this winter and it is DEFINITELY the DEMS fault! Oh yes! Not me! Not the guy who laid you off just before Christmas after 10, sorry 15 years of service and perfect attendance....THEN!!! Tell everybody the private sector can do it better and has less costs than a publicly run and publicly responsible entity.
7. Downsize fire teachers and police while constantly crowing about how great they are!!!! What can they say? You're on their side!!! Just as long as they don't want a pension......or to own a home.......or to feed their kids in 6 months....and take away their healthcare which is a shining example to all of what should be and never will be for all.....for some reason
8. Get your buddies on the supreme court to make unlimited spending on politics normal. Then buy up every bit of airtime you can. Label your opponents communists and fascists and show black and white pictures of opponents. Then, if your opponents are well baited, they will start treating their constiuency like idiots too, losing even more of a well informed and brave lot to fringe parties that might do something and act like they have a pair with a brain attached.
9. Buy a channel and spew something. Anything. As long as they aren't thinking.......
10. Deny everything and make counter-accusations.....die happy on a boat.....shooting at the hordes on the shore.......
Yawn..............
yawwnnnn
Nice cut and Paste you have
Yawn....
You speak the truth NC. The "elite" wind baggers like James and Warrior only yawn because they have nothing of their usual stupidity that can stand in the face of truth. NOTHING!
Was someone running his mouth about nothing!
Belch..............
You sure have quite the imagination, was that you behind the puppets on Mister Rodger's?
AvailbetweenNC
Where did you get the Democrat election campaign play book??
That came straight out of my brain in 5 minutes. No cut and paste. People like me can't run for office because we smoke pot, don't ever work for OTHER people, and say what everyone is thinking. Hold up a sign that says democrat on top of all that and you just get shot. Belch, however, i gotta hand it to ya. Belch. It's like Shakespeare. Jefferson. It's a screenplay waiting to be written. I do like that you replied though. I guess Yawn or belch is all you can get out in 5 minutes with fingers that fat. Learn to type. Was the hard part holding down ......................................or remembering your login?
Aren't we just 3 hours away from the death of ObamaCare?
It is exciting. Exactly how the government shouldn't work. partisan, shady back room deals, unrealistic accounting.
Bush 2.0 in 2012!!!!!
sorry - I meant Romney...
anything but the turd in the WH right now.
Wondering...
Why doesn't Willard ever mention his party's record of "achievement" from 2001 to 2009? There is NO mention of their previous Presidency at all. It's TOTALLY off message. Why isn't he telling voters that repukes want to take us BACK to those 8 years?
W is not asked to campaign. Cheney and his tax payer heart not asked to speak. Rumsfeld? Anyone? Why is even mentioning their past so "off message?"
Why do they only run AGAINST Obama, but never run FOR their past record?
Anyone?
Wondering.....
Why doesn't obama speak the truth about the economy for the past 3 years?
He has never even mentioned how he felt about billy clintons cigar parlor tricks.
Why do they always campaign on lies and never reality?
Anyone?
I looked at the poll numbers for NC which is where I live. They polled 100 people and consider this to mean Obama has a lead. They should actually come here and realize that many do not want Obama. After Amendment One was soundly passed Obama came out and basically supported gay marriage. He may have picked up a few votes from young gay supporters but he upset more of the older crowd which will cost him support.
In 2008 you could see NC was behind Obama but you don't see it now. It will be very close election for whoever wins but NC will not be a battleground state as many think.
I would call 250+ fundraisers pandering,...wouldn't you billy?
No I am sure Billy believes that to be good government jpeg.
The greatest President the world has ever known is President Obama!! You better get on board you right wing facist~
lolllll
Please get a grip, and by all means, having read your other post, please stop using the Lord's name to ediify yourself and as a platform for your misguided notions. Thanks!
man....are YOU going to be disappointed.
What fantasy world are you living in????? Obama is a bigot, hates the white people and is slowing but surely giving away the American dream. If you think he is an honest to goodness American, you definitely are living in a fantasy world.
So you believe like Obama does then Rand.He believes he is on par with Lincoln,Jefferson,Washington and more of the truly best presidents,and he has said as much.He left out Reagan though..go figure.Sorry dude,Obama,although not the worst, he's running a close second, a sure bet for third.
Ignorance doesn't get you anywhere!!!!
I'm a democrat, but Obama has been force feeding us a pack of lies. I have come to know him as a con artist and have no trust in anything he says, because he is a died in the wool SOCIALIST and the results of that are clearly Equal Sharing of Misery for all Americans. I have grown to like Romney's character and business sense and trust him. So it's a crossover for me.
Oh please elmer. You ain't no Democrat. Maybe a DINO. But not the real thing. You never voted for Obama. Do you think the whole world is so stupid as to believe you?
You're not the whole world Yankee-Boy ,and you know nothing about this persons politics. It sounds to me like he is thinking for himself,and not being brainwashed with all the head rotting propaganda,in the bias mainstream media.
Tell your freinds Elmer!!!! Perhaps I could rejoin the dem fold if you could help clean up the party.By that I mean tossing the liberal left that has taken over.Which in turn has brought us Reid,Pelosi,Boxer,Rangle,most MSNBC posters.Pure comedy like that nut in Miinesota,wished he would have ctuck to stand up.And lastly Obama.
GOP short term memory loss. Bush who? Prior record? huh? Economic collapse - what? We really need the economy to collapse under Romney, like it would have under GW. Then you WILL understand how bad it can get...
the economic collapse was caused mostly be democrats.
try again.
Actually James the first $750 Billion in TARP was at the request of your Texas drunk. You have a very selecive memory. (There are drugs for that.)
Yankee Boy... you are in over you're head.
As we entered the recession, as many as half of all mortgages in the U.S. were considered inferior and liable to default. This was a clear result of government housing policies to encourage home ownership, which resulted in a broad misallocation of capital, loosened mortgage standards, and created distortions in the real estate market.
On top of this, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) had an official policy of increasing home ownership by lowering mortgage underwriting standards. This had a significant effect on the quality of mortgages in circulation prior to the recession.
So who’s to blame for the housing policies that caused the recession? HUD was created by Lyndon Johnson (a Democrat) after passage of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act by a Democrat-controlled House and Senate in 1965.
The Community Reinvestment Act was signed into law by Jimmy Carter (another Democrat) after, once again, passing through a Democrat-controlled House and Senate.
It would appear that Democrats are to blame
Another cause of the 2007-08 recession was banking regulation that a) concentrated mortgage securities with a small number of firms, b) offered implied government insurance on bad mortgages, and c) established accounting guidelines that allowed banks to significantly reduce their capital positions.
This is where Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac come in. Both entities, while technically private entities, made the federal government the implicit backers of every mortgage held. That implied guarantee was made explicit once they were bailed out following this latest recession
Another cause of the 2007-08 recession was banking regulation that a) concentrated mortgage securities with a small number of firms, b) offered implied government insurance on bad mortgages, and c) established accounting guidelines that allowed banks to significantly reduce their capital positions.
This is where Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac come in. Both entities, while technically private entities, made the federal government the implicit backers of every mortgage held. That implied guarantee was made explicit once they were bailed out following this latest recession
Sure and that's why there was a sweeping of the House Dems in 2010...Americans are smarter than you think, they know that this administration is to blame for where we are. Nice try.
The economic collapse has been coming for a long time. Pre-Bush 41 even. Once NAFTA was implemented, on Bill Clinton's watch, our downhill slide became much quicker. Bush 41 was the first president to speak of "THE NEW WORLD ORDER" during an evening press conference. Do any of you remember? But it was president Clinton who implemented NAFTA. We are where we are now due to the actions of the Republi-crats who have been taking care of themselves for decades now at our expense. Time to change the guard. Maybe an honest man who has run businesses (Massachusetts, Bain Capital, Olympics) and believes in a higher power not affiliated with destroying "the Great (USA) and Small (Israel) evils in this world (according to the radical Muslims) can save us from this slide we are on. Making back room deals with Russia, Palestine, Iran, etc, which directly effect Iran's opportunity to wipe us out with nuclear weaponry is now the standard with President Obama, who was mentored by Rev. Jeremiah Wright (Annarchist) and Rev. Jesse Jackson (just what church is in preaching to?).
Fine.
Now.
The climate of unregulated and neverending growth offered by large companies refusing to make any check on people's credit AT ALL, which I assure you is not in those bills or institutions, led to constant overvaluing of all real estate, not to mention the bargain prices we all get now because no one shops around when they have money. And the constant house flipping.
Deregulation of savings and loans, which crashed enmass during another President's term, this lifetime, led to speculation on everything from land to oil to bad mortgages. The crash could have come just as easily as an overextension of any of the large markets, but housing is where it hit. It was also where many of us were the weakest.
After completely wrecking confidence in Wallst, which bet against companies while selling shares of those companies to its own clients, which is illegal, all the paper was called in when Bear Sterns couldn't maintain liquidity, resulting in a massive panic and almost shutdown of the entire world economy. The next year, bonuses were normal for all involved. No one went to jail. Investors, who should have been outraged, either ran or put their heads between their legs and kissed it goodbye, not knowing that our corporate overlords had decided to buy themselves some welfare.
After the bailout, the companies used techniques called gouging and usery to repay the government, which was complicit in said robbery, Dem and Pub. All this while pretending we aren't at war twice and steadily allowing rights to fall away like burnt leaves. Poor people who don't pay their mortgages help the economy dip@!$%#. Someone else gets to keep the money they paid already and resell the house at full value. Someone else gets to buy it now. The only person who loses is the poor person.
The MIDDLE CLASS, that is, the NOT POOR PEOPLE, are primarily responsible for holding up the shabang by not selling every stock they own. The Rich would have nothing if the middle class wasn't willing to stand there and take it. Now, the democratic party aint full of saints, but I know where the devils are. The dems are guilty of being weak and slow. The Republicans are just guilty. They have yet to come up with a plan and since they're too stupid, lazy, impish, full of bile and hungry for absolute power, they will not lend a hand to anyone outside their own little world until it's all gone to pot. Don't talk to me about people losing their homes. Homes are resellable.
There was no justice for Wallst. There was no justice for the rest of us. Period. Not a dem thing. It's a rich thing. and most of the rich mother@!$%#ers are on the OTHER side of the aisle. Boner grew up poor, but he'd just as soon put a bullet in his own head than go back. Tan up boys. Oh, and type something smart like, YAWN, or BELCH.
potable.....please have your doctor perform a rectal craniotomy.
bush has not been president since 2008. He did what he did and the messiah hasn't fixed it.
one and done
next applicant to try in 2013
C'mon Obama. There is more blame to go around. Don't give it all to Bush! What about McKinley, Taft, Eisenhower, ...
just an aside.
did you know Obama's the only US 'citizen' in Harvard's history to apply and receive FOREIGN AIDE?
hmmmm
How else would he pay is profs off. He didn't know Oprah then and couldn't get her funding.
I think you mean AID. Anything else you can't get right?
Where'd you two graduate from anyway. Junior college? 8th grade?
aid (also known as international aid, overseas aid, or foreign aid)
Yankee Boy... you ain't ready for this playground
It appears that way, but no one knows for sure, since he will not release those documents.Spent millions keeping it that way I might add.
Any tea pots on suicide watch if things don't go your way today?
Keep the Guvmint Outta My Medicare!
no but Obama's presidency is.
You're such a smart little troll James, how come Rove isn't calling you to DC. Then you could tell them everything you know. (Lunch in 5!)
surely not... I'm continuing to converse with you
Have you considered the same for your liberal lefty freinds and commrades yankyBOY?
If these numbers are correct, my dream of moving back to my birthplace of NH is no longer in place. I must find a place where voters research all sides and understand what they are researching. When I lived there, I worked in the largest employer in my city and there were always Liberaterian, Socialist, and other political supporters handing out literature at the gates. The only time there were moderate or more right leaning publications being handed out it was by me. I read all literature available and made up my own mind. As Margaret Thatcher once stated, "Socialism works well until the wealthy run out of money". WAKE UP AMERICA. We should not be a Socialist society. We were founded as a Republic and have been successful that way for two and one quarter centuries.
A foundation that is despised by the those who are left in the political spectrum.Democracy is the description of our nation to leftys.They totally and comfortably ignore the "Republic" part of the equation.